Watercolour and drawings exhibition: Spherical Lear, it would appear, and many other big names
Edward Lear (1812-88), the Victorian artist and author probably best known for penning 'The Owl and the Pussycat', started drawing himself as ‘perfectly spherical’ in 1860.
Three of these doodled drawings are on offer at Guy Peppiatt’s exhibition of 18th and 19th century B…